Nina Dragičević: Parallellax

Kamizdat is delighted to present a story, a challenge, a question, in a form of electro-acoustic composition in three parts from Slovenian musician, composer, artist and activist Nina Dragičević. An aspect of this particular sonic tale that is particularly gripping is a relentless spiraling into suggestive sound-world, guided by repetitions and pulsations. They form a claustrophobic, swaying grip of rhythms: “love is violence is violence against women is body is shouting is speaking are people are social situations are slaughtering is tongue is cut is laughter is applause is collapse.”

The sound is contextualized by a thoughtful essay by Nataša Velikonja who writes that “Nina Dragičević invites us to review, to reevaluate the fundamental Enlightenment concepts, concepts of freedom, existential liberty, community, subjectivity, she invites us to recompose enlightenment by decomposing it.” This is a work that seem to explore uncovered layers of electro-acoustic sound. It is digging deep to new levels of listening and meaning of exposing a listener to things one is unprepared to hear. Which is why it has been created and presented in the form of a “listening performance”.

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KAMIZDAT is a slovene netlabel born in 2006 and resurected in 2013. It covers broad horizon of genres while maintaining dedication to releases of local artists. Apart from free digital downloads (archive.org & bandcamp) it occasionally forays into releasing physical objects in limited editions sourced from, and collaboratively created by, local crafts-women and men. Our values are do-it-yourself ethos, local action, free software, environmental awareness and critical theory.